iPhone

I'm sure some of you have seen the new phone from Motorola/Cingular, the ROKR. It has an integrated flash memory chip for storying music. However, there are some downfalls. Like the nGage, most phones that try to be something other than phones fail miserably. For example, it only has a 512MB flash drive capable of storying 250 medium-quality songs, 100 or so at better-than-average (192KBit). For about 100 bucks you can pick up an ipod shuffle 512MB at best buy, while this phone will run you a cool 249.99 with a 2 year plan (source: Cingular Wireless) Also the phone's included headphones are very cheap foam-covered earbuds, not the "status symbol" white earbuds. And to power the flash memory, you lose batery life. You get about 6.5 hours of "talk/music" time, or 260 hours on non-music/standby. That goes down even more when you use the integrated, very tinny, stereo speakers and rhythm-pulse lights and the bluetooth. Using all of the phones features between charges gets you about a true 45 minutes to 1 hour of use time, with the high-color video screen, music playback, pulse lights etc. I rate the phone a 2 out of 5. Great phone, if you don't mind spending the money and buying some extra batteries (you'll need them). But otherwise get a little flash MP3 player and a nice cheap cell phone that makes phone calls.If it's such a bad phone it has to push other features, I don't want it in the first place